GOLF TRAINING

This time, I want to talk about an issue that really caught my attention one night while channel-surfing.

I saw these strange looking contraptions/devices/machines/… (whatever you want to call them)……on several infomercials, that were designed to (so they claim) to improve your golf game.

I had to smile,..er…

 

Burst out laughing is more like it!

So, I figured that since I was putting a blog together, this would be one of the first issues I’d discuss. Those infomercials were what really started me thinking about golf comedy and sports humor in general.

So here it is…..

 

GOLF TRAINING

When done within reason, can step-by-step, slowly over time cut down that mountainous barrier of inconsistency, forced errors and ”bunker-bombing”
(just invented that phrase….at least as far as I know). ;-] (lol)

That’s a GOOD THING.

 

However………

The market today is littered with mountains of training programs, gadgets and gurus.
”Get this book! It’ll knock four strokes off your game!” ”Buy my course! It’ll leave your golf buddies’ eyes popping out of their
heads!”
Take this pill! It’ll train you for the tour WHILE YOU SLEEP!”

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!

Don’t get me wrong. There are a few programs on the market worth their weight in gold. They ACTUALLY DELIVER what they promise in their advertising. (What a refreshing concept!!) Many others are just ridiculous.

I’ve seen several training methods that require you to get into some odd-looking contraption (that looks like some astronaut training device for space exploration)! Your head points in one direction, arms in another direction, one leg straight, the other at some unknown angle. The back is arched, eyeballs
looking in opposite directions (just kidding about that last one). ;-]

BUT YOU GET THE POINT!

I didn’t think it was possible for a human being to get in that position! (It would take an army of surgeons about two weeks to get me in that pose!)

Come on people!

Is the game of golf really so hard that we need all of these gadgets and tons of gear? (Like a golf club….that ACTUALLY BREAKS!?! ….golf balls designed so that
they practically grow wings to give you better control over it’s flight path…..
computer-related handheld devices using satellite/GPS technology to give you everything from wind speed/direction, humidity, contour of land, orders you take-out, gives stock quotes, provides online dating, etc!

Thousand dollar/hour golf lessons? The way things are going now, that could very well become a reality! (I shudder to think of it). This is getting a little ridiculous, don’t you think?

Think back to a simpler time…when the ‘PROs of OLD’ walked the green.
And some of them STILL DO, (thank goodness)!
Look at the old photos. Few golf carts! No GPS! No state-of-theart golf clubs
and golf balls!
JUST THE PURE LOVE OF THE GAME and
DETERMINATION
DROVE THEM TO THE HIGHEST ESCHELLONS OF GOLF MASTERY.

They relied more on the skill of their inner game and the desire to be the best, rather than gadgets and contraptions. (Which have their place, mind you. But there is a danger that we come to rely on them too much….like a toddler relies on a comfort blanket.

An over-reliance on ‘machines’ signals a distraction from the fun and love of the game of golf……a ‘TO WIN AT ANY COST’ mindset.

YES, I know…….with the proliferation of tournaments, and millions of dollars up for grabs,….Any little edge counts! You did not enter the world of golf as ‘part-man, part-machine’. You are 100% human being with a simple love of the game.

Let’s get back to that! Copyright 2007 by Kevin D. Rolle. (All Rights Reserved)